With the meanness as well as insolence of tyranny, it compelled the National Government to abstain from acknowledging the neighbor Republic of Hayti, where slaves have become freemen, and established an independent nation.
Sumner highlights the hypocrisy of the National Government's refusal to recognize Haiti, a nation of freed slaves.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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